September 26, 2012

Anyway, it's another bag charm. My MIL was constantly telling me how much she loved mine, so I made her one for her birthday. When filling it with wool, I added a bit of dried lavender to give it a nice scent. I think she liked it :)

September 19, 2012

The KreaDoe (probably the largest crafty fair in Holland) is coming up in a few weeks, and they are having a creative blogger contest this year. I'd love a chance to win, so please vote for me when the time comes!

September 14, 2012

I've been busy trying to re-start my workshop teaching efforts, and besides many other things (like a website...) I want to make some flyers and cards. However, I needed to start with a name and a logo, and this is what I came up with.

September 11, 2012

I've been busy though: besides the summer holiday I've been putting a lot of time and effort into my DaWanda shops (yes, plural :) With the launch of the new dutch DaWanda platform I decided it was a good moment to separate my supplies shop from my handmade goodies shop.
From now on all my handmade things, both old and new, and hopefully before too long also some patterns of mine, will be listed in the 'old' shop: HGK-handmade.
I've had an online beadshop for several years, but it was only available in dutch. So now my beads, and any other supplies I sell, will be available internationally (and in dutch, english and german) through DaWanda as well: Het Kralenkabinet (The Bead Cabinet).
Moving so many listings from one shop to another has proved to be a big & tedious job, and I am still nowhere near finished *sigh*. But one day it will be all done I'm sure :)

And to top it all I've decided to pick up teaching workshops again: I have done several over the last few years but I never really put a lot of effort into scheduling new ones, and it's been very quiet for the last year or so. Before I only ever taught jewellery making workshops, but I want to try out some new ones as well, such as making jewellery or other objects with felt, fabric and stitching.
I'm really excited about this plan, but also a little scared :)
But I know this will be a good direction for me to take.

I will try to update here more often!
In the meantime, I would very much appreciate if you would take the time to check out (and hopefully 'Like') my facebook fanpages *pretty please*